Tajfun 480 plus video

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Some of my appalling camera work as requested in another thread. I had a bit of spare time today so filmed a few bit and pieces and got my brother to film some.

In the video there's a 6 way splitter in with automatic height adjust (measured while cutting) but there's also a 12 way for the bigger stuff we use. Normally we have a row of boxes that we cut into. I was good and deliberately didn't edit out the awkward bits.

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On hardwood we change the chain every 18 tons when cutting 9 inch and the bar every 200, obviously longer lengths mean less sharpening. In our experience whether you use a chain or blade you normally hit something in the wood before the estimated time to sharpen.

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Most new processors turn off when you lift the guard. On the tajfuns the chain only moves while you're cutting, it turns off between cuts.

Jams are very rare because there's a clamp on the log and the chains are always kept sharp. It only jams if the chain blunts or occasionally the log can slip on the last cut but that's operator error to be honest. You don't get the jamming like we used to have with a blade.

84 link oregon or husqvarna chains are usually £20+ but we just got a few for 14. I can't remember what bars are but I think about 50 for the 24 inch.

Not sure how that compares to blades, we would have to have a spare to avoid downtime so that would be a big cost and then I suppose it depends how many tips you have to replace.

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